The Effect of Cataract Operation on Ocular Hypotony after Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin C.

Woo, Sung Chil; Yoo, Ji Myung; Bae, Ji Hong

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1998;39(9):2121-2128.
Published online September 1, 1998.

The Effect of Cataract Operation on Ocular Hypotony after Trabeculectomy with Mitomycin C.

Sung Chil Woo, Ji Myung Yoo, Ji Hong Bae

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Korea.

마이토마이신 섬유주 절제술후 저안압이 있던 눈에서 백내장수술이 안압과 여과포 미치는 영향

우성철(Sung Chil Woo),유지명(Ji Myung Yoo),배지홍(Ji Hong Bae)

Abstract

Cataract operation was carried out in 7 glaucomatous eyes with prolonged ocular hypotony after trageculectomy with intraoperative mitomycin C. In all cases, The postoperative intraocular pressure(IOP) rose and the postopeative average IOP was 6.0+/-2.0mmHg higher than their preoperative average IOP. The preexisting bleb was reduced in size eyes that underwent phacoemulsification and posterior chamber intraocular lens(PC-IOL) implantation. But. It was not changed in extracapsular cataract extraction and IOL implantation. In our study, cataract operation in eyes that had lens opacity with prolonged hypotony induced IOP rise and was beneficial to hypotony.